Improvement in feeding-mechanism for carding-machinb



-letters and numbers being used in all the figures todenote the same`\parts.

vovercome'is this: The rack alone does not guide the `racy, but leaves them liable, from several causes, to vary in distance from cath other.. Two slivers or draw- @anni tite.

BENJAMIN W. TAUGEE, lOF WOOD VILLE, lRHODE ISLAND. Letters Patent No.86,95,3, dated'Feb/ruary 16, 1869; antedated January 30, 1869.

rMPRovEMENT IN FEEDING-MECHANISM PoR -.'.eiR1JIN -lmnzzniNE.

The Schedule xefen'ed to :ln these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, BENJAMIN W. 'TAUGEE, of Woodville, in the county of Washington, and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for lCarding Wool; and 'I do hereby declare the following to be a full and correct description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specincation, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, Vsimilar Figure 1 is a top'view of the improvement.

Figure 2 is a vertical longitudinal section, taken through in the direction of the red line in g. 1.

The construction is as follows: l l

The rolls C C' represent the feed-rolls of the wool-1 card, called the iinishen a is the rack, that keeps the slivers of wool, or sidedrawings, as they are called, in proper position when entering the feed-rolls, and usually placed close behind the rolls C C.'

The trouble that my improvement is intended to sliiers of wool into thefeed-rolls with sufficient accuings will get nearer together, and consequently make a thicker place on the main cylinder, at the same time, of course, making a thin place oneach side ofthe thick one; and when these places reach the doffer, they will make a variation in the size ofslivers of roving taken oif of the rings of the doffer, which, when spun, will canse inequalities in the yarn, to the great injury of the goods when woven.

To obvia-te this difficulty, I place a series of tapering tubes, o o o o o, j ust back of the feed-rolls C C', in place of the rack, which I put still further back from the rolls.

The tubes o o are made of the same size andwidth exactly,and ll the whole space 'in the length of the feed-rolls, and the divisions between the tubes are made thin, so as to take up but little room.

The rack a, as before stated, is placed further back from the feed-rolls, say about six inches or so, and a pair of auxiliary feed-rolls, S S',l is placed in front of the rack, to assist the feed, the roll S beingl driven by a belt, x, from the feed-roll C. l

The operation is this: The slivers or drawings being taken from the cans or spoo1S,pass through the rack d, v between the rolls 4S S', and then through thetubes o o o, which being made tapering, with their smaller ends toward the feed-rolls C C', slightly condense. them,

and present them in a uniform lap to the feed-rolls, which deliver them in like condition to the main cylindex', covering its surface with a uniform coat of wool, from which the doi'er produces aJseries of uniform sli- Vers of rovings capable of being spun into yarn of like character.

Having thus described my improvement,

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is 4 v l. The series of tubes o o o, placed side by side, and close together, in combination with the feed-rolls of the carding-machine, substantially as herein set forth, and for the purpose specified.

2. The combination of rack a, auxiliary rolls S S', tubes o o o, and feed-rolls C C', substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

- BENJAMIN W. TAUGEE. Witnesses:

HORACE N. FOSTER, JAMES E. ARNOLD. 

